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WBAI  99.5  FIN 


NOVEMBER  1985 


14th  Annual  WBAI  Crafts  Fair 


The  holiday  season  is  the  time  of 
\'ear  when  we  try,  against  all  odds, 
to  fcK"us  on  the  pleasure  of  giving. 
The  pleasure  is  keenest  when  cir- 
cumstances (plus  a  fiill  wallet  or 
good  credit)  [X.Tmit  \'ou  to  select  a 
gift  that  \oii  know  will  delight  the 
recipient.  Tlie  pleasure,  then,  should 
be  compounded  by  spreading  your 
good  cheer  in  several  directions  at 
once,  right?  Let's  show  you  how  to 
put  this  theon-  to  the  test. 

B\'  shopping  at  the  14th  Annual 
WBAI  Cratts  Fair,  vou  can  give  Aunt 
Tillv  and  VC13AI  lioth  a  gift  the\'ll 
appreciate,  WliAl's  eas\-.  We  need 
money,  and  your  $4  d(X)r  tee  ($3 
with  the  subscriber's  coupon  in  this 
Folio)  provides  us  with  just  that. 
And  now  for  Aunt  Tilly. 

During  three  weeks  prior  to 
Christmas,  Frida\'  through  Sunda\- 
November  29-December  1;  Dec  13- 
15;  and  December  20-22  .some  40() 
carefully  selected  professional 
cr:tftspeople  from  all  over  the 
country  will  be  gathered  together  at 
Coluni*iia  ', 'nive'-sit;,''.s  Ferris  Booth 
Hall,  115th  Street  arid  Broadway. 

Presuming  that  Aunt  Tilly  is  not 
partial  to  velvet  paintings  or  Worlds 
Fair  memorabilia  you  should  find 
something  to  please  her  at  the  Fair's 
two  full  floors  of  crafts  displays, 
Replace  the  heirlcx^m  teapot  you 
smashed  as  a  toddler  with  one  that 
will  be  cherished  by  generations  to 
come.  The  Fair  features  the  wares  of 
potters  who  work  with  eventhing 
from  earthenware  to  porcelain.  Per- 
haps a  piece  of  jewelry — a  classic 
brooch  or  some  kinky  earrings  to 
wear  slumming  to  the  Kamikaze 
Club,  if  she's  a  gentle  soul,  perhaps 
a  handsome  silk  scarf  or  woven 
shawl  to  throw  across  her  knees. 

Okay,  Aunt  Tilly's  taken  care  of. 
How  about  Uncle  Ned?  A  new  belt, 
wallet  or  vest  ma\-  fill  the  bill.  A 
beautiful,  handcrafted  wcjoden  box 
for  his  collection  of  Alf  Landon 
campaign  buttons  may  appeal.  A 
ceramic  beer  mug  or  cry.stal  de- 
canter to  be  filled  with  his  choice  of 
spirits.  Lambskin  moccasins  or  a  fun 
hat  will  do  much  to  ward  oft' winter's 
chill. 

While  you're  there,  you  may  be 
able  tf)  find  other  answers  to  your 
shopping  list  from  among  the  hand- 
crafted clothing  or  decorative  ob- 
jea  purveyors.  The  seleaion  is  vast 
and  the  quality  is  excellent.  All 
participating  craftspeople  must  be 
cleared  by  a  jury  of  their  peers  from 
the  crafts  community  before  they 
find  a  place  at  the  Fair. 

In  case  your  loved  one  eschews 
all    material    gifts — except    books 


(not  as  uncommon  as  you  might 
think! ),  the  Authors  Table  returns  to 
the  Crafts  Fair.  You  can  subscribe, 
renew  or  give  a  gift  subscription 
and  receive  a  book  free.  Keep  the 
book  (you  de.serve  a  gift),  or  else 
.send  it  along  to  place  under  the 
Christmas  tree  or  menorah.  It 
the  time,  six  or  eight  weeks,  til  the 
Folio  arrives  for  the  first  time. 

Authors  represented  at  the  Fair 
include  regular  WBAI  contributors 
such  as  Bill  Tabb,  Gary  Null  and 
Paul  Gorman.  Also  available  are  the 
works  of  Noam  Chomsky,  Ben 
Gross,  Petra  Kelly,  Manning  Mar- 
able  and  Abbie  Hofftnan,  to  name 
just  a  few. 

Or,  if  you're  a  little  .strapped  this 
N-ear,  give  the  Fair  as  a  gift.  Treat 
someone  to  the  Fair  admission  and 
let  them  choo.se  ( and  pa>'  for)  a  gift. 
It's  sure  to  be  just  what  they  wanted. 


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Tliere  i.s  enough  by  way  of  social 
criticism  of  the  media  in  this  issue 
of  the  Folio  (see  James  Aroason's 
piece  on  The  New  York  Times)  so 
that  this  Report  both  can  be  brief 
and  al.so  focus  on  WBAI. 

The  September  Marathon  gen- 
erated $126,545  in  support  from 
you  our  sponsors.  We  did  have  a 
goal  of  $150,000  predicated,  per- 
haps foolishly,  on  what  we  in  faa 
needed,  rather  than  what  we  knew 
was  possible.  Nonetheless,  you  de- 
livered yet  another  resounding  vote 
of  confidence  for  independent 
community  radio  and  for  that  we 
thank  you. 

As  you  know,  Oaober  marked 
the  beginning  of  cxir  fi.scal  year. 
During  the  last  fi.scal  year  WBAI 
received  $580,000  in  support  from 


its  listeners — more  than  we  have 
received  in  the  last  ten  years.  How- 
ever, this  growth  in  income,  has  not 
been  accompanied  by  much  growth 
in  the  number  of  subcribers  nor, 
for  that  matter,  in  the  overall  size  of 
our  listening  audience. 

While  a  minority  of  our  li.steners 
are  paying  an  ever  larger  amount  to 
keep  the  .station  on  the  air,  it  has 
simply  has  not  been  enough  to 
provide  anything  more  than  below 
subsistance  wages  to  a  much-too- 
small  .staff.  Nor  has  it  been  adequate 
to  handle  pressing  equipment 
maintenance  needs.  Indeed,  our 
aging  broadcast  plant  has  had  an 
increasingly  negative  effea  on  the 
quality  of  our  air  .sound. 

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find  a  wav  to  build  audience.  This 


means  finding  the  resources  the 
promote  and  adverti.se  the  best  of 
our  programs.  And  it  means  having 
the  money  to  prtxluce  the  kinds  of 
dcKumentaries,  concerts,  and  radio 
drama  that  have  been  the  hallmark 
of  WBAI's  .service  to  its  communir\-. 

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for  major  funding  to  provide  the 
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us  here — and  for  helping  us  get 
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Review  of  the  Press 


The  following  interiiew  hetiiven 
WBAI's  News  Director,  Barbara 
Day.  and  James  Arouson.  jour- 
nalist and  co-founder  of  the  Na- 
tional Guardian,  was  broadcast 
on  September  29th. 

James  Aronson:  I  think  the  resig- 
nation had  to  come. 

Barbara  Day:  James  Aron.son  is 
the  author  of  .several  books  about 
the  media  and  has  spent  his  work- 
ing life  as  a  journalist. 

JA— No  person  with  the  integrity 
and  principle  which  Sydney  Schan- 
berg  certainly  demonstrates  could 
remain  on  a  newspaper  which 
treated  him  as  it  did. 

BD — Pete  Hamiil,  in  the  lead 
article  of  the  current  i.ssue  of  the 
Village  Voice,  quotes  an  announce- 
ment made  late  in  August  by  Sidney 
Gruson,  deputy  to  Times  publisher 
Arthur  Sulzberger.  It  says,  after '  <>,•- 
years  of  writing  his  twice-"" 
New  York  column  on  th  j 

page  of  the  New  York  Times,  yd- 
ney  Schanberg  has  been  asked  to 
accept  another  assignment  which  is 
now  under  discassion.  Hamiil  goes 
on  to  note  that  Schanberg,  who  has 
.spent  his  adult  life  working  for  the 
New  Y(3rk  Times,  almo.st  died  for 
the  in.stitution  in  the  spring  of  1975, 
when  he  .stayed  behind  in  Cam- 
bodia to  write  the  stor\-  of  the 
Khmer  Rouge  conquest  of  Phnom 
Penh. 

JA; — The  publisher  insisted  that 
Schanberg  was  not  living  up  to  the 
original  idea  that  he  had  about  the 
column.  He  said  he  wanted  a 
column  on  urban  affairs  generally. 
Then  why  for  Gods  .sake  was  the 
column  called  "New  York"? 

BD — In  recounting  the  tale, 
Hamiil  said  Schanberg  wanted 
more  and  more  coverage  of  the 
weak,  the  defenseless.  Schanberg, 
interviewed  by  the  Baston  Citizen, 
says  he  looked  at  the  city  much  the 
same  way  he'd  looked  at  countries 
overseas. 

JA — He  wrote  about  the  real  New 
York,  the  people  in  the  inner  cities, 
the  people  who  are  .so  terribly 
deprived,  and  not  about  the  people 
who  have  flown  out  to  the  suburbs. 

BD — Hamiil  writes  ekx]uently 
that  Schanberg  staked  out  his  own 
beat — the  homeless,  the  injured, 
the  casualties  of  the  indifference 
and  greed  of  big  builders,  bankers, 
and  other  pillars  of  the  establish- 
ment. 

JA — More  and  more  the  Times 
has  publicly  identified  itself  with 
those  interests  in  the  city — real 
estate  people,  the  developers,  and 
the  big  department  store  owners 
and  s(5  on — whom  Schanberg  was 
obviously  offending,  and  I  think 
that  is  at  the  root  of  the  problem. 
I'm  not  even  so  sure  it  was  Abe 
Rosenthal,  the  terrible-tempered 
Mr.  Bangs  him.self,  who  was  direaly 
responsible,  but  there's  no  ques- 
tion tliat  Rosenthal  is  the  perfea 


rep.esentative  of  the  people  who 
run  the  Times. 

BD— The  New  York  Times,  for 
generations  of  New  Yorkers,  was 
the  paper  of  record.  It  was  ordered 
in  cit\'  high  schools,  and  .students  in 
the  Fifties  and  Sixties  were  told  that 
reading  the  New  York  Times  from 
cover  to  cover  every  day  for  four 
years  was  great  preparation  for 
college,  if  not  indeed  the  equivalent 
of  four  years  of  college  itself  The 
paper  has  influenced  the  lives  of 
many  who  praaice  journalism  in 
the  cit\'  today,  and  .so  there  is  a  note 
of  .sadness  when  speaking  about  the 
paper's  shift  to  the  right.  Aron.son 
says  there's  been  a  steady  drift 
toward  the  neocon.servative  ap- 
proach. 

JA — I  think  the  New  York  con- 
.servatism  manifests  itself  especiallv 
in  the  cultural  coverage  of  the  New 
York  Times,  the  kind  of  people 
they've  been  hiring,  but  not  alone 


,Cl^^^.i^^'..^' 


there.  I  think  in  its  foreign  coverage, 
with  the  acquisition  of  Shirley 
christian,  who  is  probably  the 
dream  repwrter  for  the  people  whe 
are  trying  to  overthrow  the  govern- 
ment of  Nicaragua,  the  patent  dis- 
mis.sal  of  Raymond  Bonner,  who.se 
coverage  of  Latin  America  was  .so 
good. . . 

BD— Pete  Hamiil  mentions  Wil- 
liam Buckley,  Irving  Kristol,  and 
Norman  Podhoretz  as  militants 
against  Schanberg. 

JA — Neocoaservatism  covers  an 
awfiil  lot  of  sins.  There  are  a  lot  of 
people  among  the  neoconserva- 
tives  who  once  were  in  the  left  or 
regarded  them.selves  as  of  the  left, 
and  have  departed  from  the  left 
while  pretending  to  do  it  with  a 
measure  of  regret.  It's  not  regret  on 
their   part,   it's  opportunism   and 


greed  and  grasping,  and  that's  what 
I  think  is  the  terrible  spirit  that  Ls 
moving  into  the  American  cultural 
scene,  which  I  think  has  to  be 
resisted  at  all  ca,sts. 

BD — ^And  part  of  that  resistance, 
according  to  Aron.son,  is  public 
support  for  progressive  journalism. 
He  also  outlined  the  importance  of 
the  New  York  Times  in  the  arena  of 
government. 

JA — The  Times  has  always  been 
the  leader,  so  to  speak.  I  recall 
during  the  time  of  the  Cuban  crisis, 
the  Bay  of  Pigs,  when  certain  news- 
papers withheld  information,  as  the 
Times  did,  and  then  finally  the 
Times  had  to  break  the  news,  and 
other  papers  followed  suit.  And 
they  did  it  becau.se  the  New  York 
Times  did  it.  And  I  recall  President 
Kennedy's  classic  remark  to  Turner 
Catledge,  the  former  executive  edi- 
tor of  the  New  York  Times,  whom 
he  was  chiding  for  disclosing  cer- 
tain information  about  the  Bay  of 
Pigs  plans,  and  Catledge  said,  "Well, 
other  newspapers  have  printed  this 
material, "  and  the  President  said, 
"Well,  you  know,  Turner,  it's  not 
news  until  it  appears  in  the  New 
York  Times." 

BD — Profes.sor  James  Aron.son 
has  authored  .several  b(X)ks  on  the 
media.  He  resigned  from  the  New 
York  Times  in  1948  to  cofound  the 
national  weekly  Guardian.  I'm  Bar- 
bara Da\-,  Pacifica  News,  New  York. 


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word  about  the  most  current  burn- 
ing issue.  A  bit  farfetched,  right?  Yet 
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tion. We  would  like  to  tell  as  many 
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just  rwent>'-tw()  years  of  age.  Welles, 
of  course,  played  Jean  Valjean,  the 
luckless  theif  hounded  for  decades 
by  the  unrelenting  and  cruel  In- 
spector Javen,  a  role  undertaken  for 
the  (Kcasion  by  Martin  Gabel.  A 
glance  at  the  list  of  aaors  Welles 
had  involved  in  his  l.es  Miserahles, 
offers  a  preview  of  the  roster  which 
would  long  continue  to  grace  the 
Mercury  Theatre  On  tlie  Air,  and 
eventually  ever\-  HolK-wfxjd  en- 
deavor the  flamboyant  prodigy 
from  Kenosha,  Wi.sconsin,  would 
ever  achieve.  In  addition  to  Gabel, 
there  were  Riiy  Collins,  Alice  Fro.st, 
Agnes  Mcx)rehead,  Hiram  Sherman 
and  Everette  .Sloane. 

Welles'  first  radio  appearance 
was  as  an  aaor,  in  a  1934  NBC 
production  entitled  "Panic,"  and  for 
the  next  two  years  he  made  fre- 
quent appearances,  again  as  an  ac- 
tor, in  the  NBC  series  "The  March  of 
Time."  In  ensuing  seasons,  he  nar- 
rated a  long-forgotten  CBS  series 
called  "Musical  Reveries, '  made  ap- 
pearances in  a  CBS  prcxiuaion  of 
Shakespeare's  "Hamlet, "  and  in  the 
same  network's  .series,  "The  Ctjlum- 
bia  Workshop. "  For  NBC,  he  guest- 
starred  on  'The  Edgar  Bergen  and 
Charlie  McCarthy  Show  "  in  1936. 

The  ven-  ne.xt  year.  Orson  Welles 
took  on  the  role  of  Lamont  Cran- 
ston in  the  series,  The  Shadow, " 
and  performed  it  while  he  adapted 
and  planned  his  .se\'en-part  Hugo 
adaptation,  still  .somehow  finding 
time  for  several  "Cavalcade  of 
America"  appearances,  and  .some 
work  in  something  called  ".Stream- 
lined Shakespeare. 

But  it  was  the  following  \ear,  in 
193H,  when  Orson  Welles'  greatest, 
and,  without  question,  most  notori- 
ous radio  ad\'enure  tcxik  place.  It 
was.  of  course,  his  produaion  of 
Howard  Koch  s  adaptation  of  H.G. 
Wells'  "The  War  of  the  Worlds  " 

It's  well  enough  to  know  that  the 
adaptation  of  >0('ells'  1898  novel. 
l">roadca.>it  on  the  Eve  ot  HaJIcrwe  en. 
Octoh)er  30,  1938,  plunged  much  of 
the  nation  into  a  state  of  near  panic. 
It  was  a  CBS  produaion  b\  tlie 
newly  formed  Mercur\-  Theatre. 
The  name  had  been  pinched  from  a 
then-popular  magazine.  The  Ameri- 
can Mercury,  a  cop\-  of  which  hap- 
pened to  be  present  in  the  Snedens 
Landing  hou.se  where  Welles  and 
John  Houseman,  who  would  be- 
come the  young  genius'  panner 
and  principal  producer,  planned 
their  fledgling  company. 

There  is  a  brief  passage  in  House- 
man's book.  RiinTbrotigb,"  which 


perhaps  entifies  as  succinaly  as  any 
writer  ever  will  the  preci.se  qualities 
Orson  Welles  brought  to  radio,  the 
traits  which  made  him  great  and  at 
the  same  time  rendered  him  vul 
nerable  in  the  extreme.  "For  Welles, 
as  I  have  .said,"  writes  Houseman, 
"was  first  and  foremost,  a  magician 
whose  panicular  talent  lay  in  his 
ability  to  stretch  the  familiar  ele- 
ments of  theatrical  effea  far  beytjnd 
their  normal  point  of  tension.  For 
this  rea  on,  his  prcxiuctioas  required 
more  areftil  preparation  and  more 
perfea  e  ecution  than  most;  like  all 
complicated  magic  tricks,  they  re- 
mained, till  the  last  moment,  in  a 
state  of  precarious  balance." 

Even  ater  he  turned  to  the  movies, 
Welles'  talent  was  still  very  much 
gift  for  great  s(jund,  a  point  made  b\ 
Francois  Truffaut,  another  great  and 
humane  talent  lost  to  the  world 
within  the  last  dozen  months.  In  his 
foreword  to  Andre  Bazin's  book 
Orson  Welles.  A  Critical  Vieiv,  Truf- 
faut wrote:  'His  radio  experience 
taught  him  ne\'er  to  leave  a  film  in 
repo,se,  to  set  up  aural  bridges  from 
one  .scene  to  the  next,  making  u.se 
of  music  as  no  one  had  before  him, 
to  capture  or  .stimulate  awareness, 
to  play  with  the  volume  of  voices  at 
least  as  much  as  the  words.  Which  is 
why — independenth-  of  the  great 
visual  pleasures  they  afford  us — 
Orson  Welles'  films  also  make  mar- 
velous radio  broadcasts:  1  ha\e  ver- 
ified this  be  recording  all  of  them 
on  cas.settes,  which  I  listen  to  in  m\- 
bathrcx)m  with  ever  renewed  de- 
light.' 

Truffaut  s  wn-  linle  fcxjtnote  must 
sureh-  have  pleased  the  lumbering 
giant  from  Wisconsin,  the  man  who 
signed  off  on  all  of  his  radio  broad- 
casts as  "Your  obedient  servant. 
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BAD  HABITS 

Saturday,  Novemlaer  9  &  23  at  4  PM 
Peter  Jon  Schuler  and  Joseph 
Hurley  present  a  free-form  collage 
drawn  from  their  lives,  their  loves, 
their  work  and  their  experiences 
growing  up.  in  the  Middle  West, 
leaving  home  in  search  of  a  larger 
world,  and  finding  careers  in 
Europe  and  New  York,  all  of  it  set 
against  the  music  of  their  times,  the 
songs  and  the  melodies  that  pro 
vided  the  sound  tracks  for  the.se 
similar  journeys  made  along  related 
pathways,  but  traveled  a  generation 
apart. 

Highlights 

CONTINl!ED  TOMORROW 
Weekdays  at  11 :30  AM 
Beginning  November  3,  a  serialized 
reading  of  Mark  Twain's  Life  on  the 
Mississippi." 

VOICES    FROM    THE    HEART    ... 

MUSIC  FROM  THE  MEN  S  MOVE 

MENT 

Tuesday,  November  5  at  2  PM 

La.stjune,  the  National  Organization 


of  Changing  Men  sponsored  their 
10th  Annual  Conference  on  Men 
and  Masculinity  in  St.  Louis,  and  this 
this  included  four  days  of  speeches, 
workshops,  organizing,  coascious- 
ness-raising  . . .  and  music!  Two 
major  conceas  during  the  confer- 
ence featured  men  and  women 
performers  whose  songs  celebrate 
the  changes  going  on  in  men's  lives 
as  they  redefine  masculinity  and 
their  relationships  with  women, 
children,  and  other  men.  Presented 
by  Lou  Giansante. 

OUT  THERE  ON  THERE  OWN: 
ROBERT  CAZIMERO. 

Thursday-,  November  ^^  at  2:30  PM 
A  galaxy  of  musical  .stars  shines  over 
Hawaii  but  is  relatively  little  know 
in  the  Continental  US.  In  this  in- 
terview, Robert  Cazimero  describes 
the  ways  in  which  his  life  informs 
his  performance  art,  and  what  limits 
are  at  work  when  a  Hawaiian  star 
attempts  to  find  a  broader  audi- 
ence. This  program  includes  a  wide 
variety  of  contemporan,'  Hawaiian 
music,  including  the  Beamer 
Brothers,  Loyal  Garner,  Carole  Kai 
and  the  late  Kui  Lee.  Produced  by 
Jo.seph  Hurle\  and  Peter  John 
Schuler. 

THE     PIPER    IN    THE    MEADOW 


Details 


STRAYING 

Thursdav,  November  7  &  14  at  8:30 
PM 

Concert  night  at  Hunter  College  in 
July  1984  was  one  to  remember 
with  two  French  musical  acts,  and 
both  are  heard  on  WBAI  this  month. 
On  Nov.  7 — the  French  rt)ck  group 
Malicorne,  one  of  the  more  interest- 
ing and  innovative  French  groups 
to  have  merged  traditional  music 
with  contemporary'  influences. 
Then,  on  Nov.  14 — Dan  Ar  Bras, 
who  once  was  a  member  of  Fairport 
convention,  and  who  has  recorded 
several  discs  of  his  own  .songs  in 
recent  years.  Both  programs  were 
recorded  (digitally)  by  Miles  Smith 
with  Sue  Radacovsky  and  produced 
for  radio  by  Edward  Haber. 

AN  INFORMAI.  HOUR  WITH 
JEANNE  MOREAL; 
Wednesday,  November  13  at  9  PM 
With  Jeanne  Moreau  about  to  open 
c^n  Broadway  in  a  revival  of  Tennes- 
see W'illiams'  "The  Night  of  the 
Iguana,"  WBAI  re-runs  its  exclusixe 
study  of  the  famed  French  actress, 
first  broadcast  in  June  of  this  year. 
Mile.  Moreau  speaks  of  life,  love 
and  the  death  of  her  friend  and 
colleague,  Francois  Truffaut.  Selec- 


tions of  her  music  is  also  featured. 

MEDIA  RE^VIEW 

Monday,  November  18  &  25  at  1  PM 
Politics  were  conspicuous  at  this 
year's  New  Music  .Seminar,  the  6th 
■  Annual  gathering  of  the  pop,  rock 
and  new  age  music  industry.  On 
1 1/18  hear  about  apartheid  and  the 
music  industry.  On  11/25  hear 
excerpts  from  the  seminar  featuring 
Frank  Zappa,  commenting  on  put- 
ting rating  .stickers  on  albums — is  it 
censorship?  Produced  by  Dennis 
Bernstein. 

AMBIGUOUS  LEGACY:  JOHN  KEN- 
NEDY AND  THE  AMERICAN 
CONDITION. 

Friday,  November  22, 8  pm. 
Twenty-rwo  years  have  pas.sed  since 
the  death  of  President  John  F. 
Kennedy.  The  Kennedy  years  are 
remembered,  rightly  or  wrongly,  as 
a  special  time — an  era  of  unparal- 
leled optimism,  idealism,  trust  in 
government  and  national  self-con- 
fidence. Many  ob.servers  view  the 
sudden,  violent  terminatitjn  of  the 
Kennedy'  presidency  as  a  watershed 
e\ent,  signaling  die  end  of  Ameri- 
can innocence  and  the  beginniiig  of 
a  new  and  turbulent  decade.  A 
ct)ntentious  debate  has  ari.sen  over 
President  Kennedy's  true  political 


characier  and  direaion,  and 
whether  his  deatli  should  be  .seen 
as  a  'sen.seless  "  tragic  act  of  fate,  or 
as  an  event  with  political  signifi- 
cance which  altered  the  course  of 
American  history.  This  documen- 
tary examines  in  a  comprehensive 
and  dispassionate  way  what  his 
brief  presidency  and  its  shcxrking 
end  really  means.  The  be.st  way  to 
understand  many  of  the  most  criti- 
cal issues  and  problems  of  today, 
such  as  the  arms  race  and  U.S. 
intervention  in  Latin  America,  is  by 
tracing  their  roots  in  the  Kennedy 
era. 

Produced  by  Rosemarie  Reetl  and 
Larry  Schlossman. 
(This  show  was  originally  broadcast 
on  WBAI  in  November,  1983). 

RELIGIOUS  FUNDAMENTALISM  IN 
THE  MIDDLE  FAST 
Wednesday,  November  27  at  9  PM 
Religious  fundamentali.sm — Islam- 
ic, Jewish,  and  Christian — has  be- 
come a  significant  taaor  in  Mideast 
politics.  This  program  explores 
what  tensions  in  the  various  scxie- 
ties  have  given  rise  to  this  phe- 
nomenon, and  what  effect  funda- 
mentalist movements  are  having  on 
that  volatile  region.  Produced  by 
Sheila  Ryan,  Nubar  Housepian,  and 
Stuart  Scharr. 


Roland  and  Robert  Cazimero,  Hawaiian  Superstars 


Amos  Oz 


Ruins 


Rachel  Berghash  is  a  poet  and  tran.s- 
lator  who  produces  a  monthly 
poetry  program  entitled  A  World 
Elsewhere  on  'WBAI.  Her  guest  this 
month  is  the  distinguished  Israeli 
author  Amos  Oz.  In  preparation  for 
this  program  she  came  across  the 
following  pro.se  piece  she  had  writ- 
ten several  years  ago. 

This  rainy  aftern(»n  in  New  York 
is  conducive  to  memories  and  sad 
thoughts.  I  leaf  through  a  magazine 
and  a  color  photograph  attracts  my 
attention.  Israeli  soldiers  are  hold- 
ing Palestinian  prisoners  near  a 
coastal  village  in  .south  Lebanon. 
The  .soldiers'  faces  are  bewildered, 
their  movements  hesitant,  not 
forceful  or  triumphant  as  one  might 
expea. 

Until  the  age  of  eighteen  the.se 
young  Israelis  spend  their  time 
hiking  in  the  mountains,  playing 
musical  instruments,  .studying  and 
having  ideological  discussions. 
Suddenly  this  changes.  They  are 
sent  to  army  camps  for  training, 
where  they  yield  to  sweat  and  du,st, 
and  an  incessant  thought  of  death. 

Mothers  of  these  .soldiers,  in  spite 
of  unthinkable  anxiety,  guide  them 
to  be  courageous.  Some  of  these 
mothers  were  classmates  of  mine.  I 
see  them  on  my  frequent  visits  to 
Israel.  We  talk  about  education,  and 
psychoanalysis,  and  philo-sophize 
about  relationships  and  marriage. 
Chaya,  who  teaches  mathematics, 
was  the  prettie.st  and  the  mo.st 
studious.  She  minded  being  .short, 
but  I  envied  her,  small  .stature  and 
all,  Dina,  who  rjns  a  school  of  7(X), 
wore  such  large  ribbons  in  her  hair 


that  if  you  sat  behind  her  you 
couldn't  .see  the  blackboard.  There 
was  Sara,  a  daredevil,  who  is  raising 
a  family  of  four.  I  once  called  her  for 
help,  when  a  fish  my  mother  had 
put  in  the  bathtub  jumped  out,  and  I 
was  too  squeamish  to  pick  it  up. 
And  Zehava,  who  at  the  age  of 
fourteen  could  di.scu.ss  b(X)ks  with 
the  sophistication  of  a  worldly 
critic;  every  day  after  school  we 
would  stand  at  the  corner  of  our 
street  and  talk  with  deep  convic- 
tion. The.se  women  who  played 
games  endlessly,  who  giggled  at 
boys,  who  felt  empathy  for  each 
other,  who  were  affeaionate  and 
frivolous,  now  have  innumerable 
dialogues  with  God — about  death. 

I  look  at  the  magazine  photo 
again.  The  Palestinians  are  blind- 
folded. The  movements  of  their 
bodies  and  heads  indicate  fear. 
Might  they  be  children  of  an  Arab 
family  I  once  visited? 

My  family  lived  in  Jerusalem 
where  my  father  owned  a  stationery 
store.  He  had  a  cu.stomer  who  lived 
in  Ramallah,  an  Arab  town  nearby. 
When  I  was  about  eleven,  this  man 
invited  us  to  come  and  visit  his 
family.  The  bus  we  went  on  be- 
longed to  an  Arab  company,  and 
only  commuted  between  Arab  vil- 
lages and  towns.  When  my  parents 
and  I  .sat  on  the  bus  I  felt  a  strange 
excitement,  like  when  I  read  a  novel 
about  French  coal  miners,  or  when 
1  .saw  a  movie  about  life  in  New 
Orleans. 

I  felt  privileged.  None  of  my 
friends  ever  visited  people  in  an 
Arab  town,  and  none  of  their  pa- 
rents could  relate  to  Arabs  with  the 


ease  that  my  father  did.  My  father, 
who  was  born  in  the  old  city  of 
Jerusalem,  was  fond  of  the  Arabs 
and  liked  to  do  business  with  them. 
He  never  tired  of  telling  me  how,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Arab-Israeli 
war  in  1948,  an  Arab  cu.stomer  who 
lived  in  Jordan  and  cjwed  him 
money  managed  to  return  the  debt 
through  opposing  lines. 

On  the  way  to  Ramallah  we 
pas.sed  a  number  of  Arab  villages. 
Except  for  some  scattered  olive 
trees  and  small  squarish  houses,  the 
land  was  bare.  But  there  was  a 
unique  beauty  to  these  villages.  A 
beauty  you  might  expect  in  a  place 
where  hermits  communicate  with 
heavenly  spirits.  Not  the  beauty  of  a 
Jewish  farm,  green  and  produaive, 
of  the  beauty  of  a  European  village 
where  custom  and  religion  prevail. 
This  was  a  beauty  of  a  land  lying  in  a 
soft,  warm  and  carefree  slumber.  A 
strong  light  was  unfolding  as  the 
bus  went  by:  a  light,  like  a  Sufi 
dance,  transcending  rites  and  laws 
and  moral  precepts.  At  each  stop  my 
heart  leaped.  How  I  craved  to  leave 
the  bus  and  run  in  tho.se  thorny, 
yellow  and  strange  fields!  To  enter 
these  Arab  homes,  perhaps  .stay 
there  for  a  while.  I  was  sitting  next 
to  my  mother  wh(j  was  wearing  a 
green  summer  dre.ss  to  match  her 
reddish  hair  and  fair  skin.  My  father 
was  chatting  with  some  Arabs.  He 
spoke  Arabic  fluently,  and  was  al- 
ways pleased  to  demonstrate  it.  He 
would  then  tell  me  of  the  Arab's  flair 
for  flattery,  and  how  they  would 
praise  the  beauty  of  my  mother. 

When  we  finally  arrived  in  Ramal- 
lah,   the   hills   and    hou.ses   were 


tinged  with  a  deep  blue.  I  thought 
of  Abraham  and  Sara  and  how  they 
greeted  the  travelers  who  turned 
out  to  be  angels.  In  this  case,  we 
were  like  Abraham  and  Sara,  and 
the  Arab  family  were  the  angels, 
who  upon  meeting  us  showered  us 
with  blessings.  My  parents  spent  the 
afternoon  chatting  with  them  on  tlie 
terrace,  while  I  kept  running  around 
in  circles  with  their  children.  And  1 
remember  that  all  that  time  their 


faces  were  lit  with  friendliness. 

It  is  .still  raining  here.  Riverside 
Park  is  empty.  Soon  the  trees  will 
bud  and  the  park  will  fill  with  young 
people,  who  will  play  and  stroll  by 
the  river.  I  look  at  the  photo  again: 
the  earth  is  laden  with  ruins;  the  sun 
is  beating  at  the  faces  of  the  soldiers 
and  prisoners;  and  there  are  no 
olive  trees,  nor  blue  hills,  nor  musi- 
cal instruments. 


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